Yep, 100%.

That is exactly what it would have been without Obama's uncle who liberated Auschwitz. 

MOSCOW, May 9 - RIA Novosti. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who promised a conversation to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who chose Victory Day in the Russian Federation instead of Europe Day, noting that there would be no Europe Day without the USSR. Merz said at a press conference that Fico is waiting for a conversation about his visit to the Russian capital on Victory Day. "There would have been no Europe Day without the victory of the Soviet people. There would be one continuous concentration camp with gas chambers," she told RIA Novosti. 

And always remember, these were only Jews who have been exterminated, killing those subhuman Slavs, especially those 17 million primarily Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian civilians, and millions of Poles with Serbs do not count, because as you all know it was about Jews only/s. 

Meanwhile, Stalingrad (Volgograd) celebrates!!

Do they even know what Mamaev Kurgan is or do they teach them what Rodimtsev Division was in the US military academies. Do not answer ... 

Keith Kellogg ...

 ... is an Exhibit A of military ignorance, characteristic of the US top brass. 

The carnage in Ukraine has led to casualty rates “beyond World War II numbers” as the “industrial-strength killing” rages on the battlefield, the US special envoy for Ukraine lamented Tuesday. Retired Gen. Keith Kellogg was adamant that negotiations are the sole way to end the bloodshed and that President Trump is the “only guy” who can lead those deliberations.

1. This is what happens when your military education is based on watching Hollywood movies and skipping basic arithmetic classes. He obviously doesn't know the difference between roughly 65 to70 million killed in WW II and 1.5 VSU KIAs. 70 mil > 1.5 mil. 

2. Trump cannot be the "only guy", because he as POTUS together with the US is a co-BELLIGERENT on the side of 404 in the conflict with Russia. The only thing he could do was to stop bloodshed in his first 100 days, he didn't. He thought he was smart--he is not. It is his war now. 

He evidently understood it, hence his outbursts. Meanwhile, down the memory lane to 2023 with the first Patriot PAC3 "being slightly damaged". Classic--first shooting as much of a package as possible at something, then the arrival of Kinzhal and then uncontrolled shoot-off of missiles due to detonation. 

Slaughtering Continues, However.

 And Russia is not budging. 

Colonel, however, slightly misinterprets Red Army's movements because it was the other way around, as was settled in Tehran in 1943, that the Red Army will launch a major offensive operation in order to relieve Allies in Normandy. The Red Army did, and it became known as Operation Bagration. And, strangely enough, it created the sense of dismay and unease in Allied camp. But the main thrust of Colonel's thought is correct. 

Because People Brought It Up Again...

... and basic ethics doesn't allow me to present to public my private "discussion" with Ted Postol, plus Douglas Macgregor refers to this self-proclaimed "expert", here is a simple answer to all this amateurish BS about Russia's SPRN and Early Warning space-based capabilities. Here is from 2020. 

МОСКВА, 5 авг - РИА Новости. Единая космическая система предупреждения о ракетном нападении "Купол", созданная для Минобороны РФ, находится в рабочем состоянии, сообщил в среду гендиректор Ракетно-космической корпорации (РКК) "Энергия" Игорь Озар.  "Пуском четвертого космического аппарата "Тундра" Единая космическая система "Купол" доведена до штатного минимального состава", - сказал Озар на едином дне приемки военной продукции. Он уточнил, что аппараты, выведенные на высокоэллиптическую орбиту, контролируют районы стартов баллистических ракет "на материковых территориях и акваториях мирового океана".

Translation: MOSCOW, August 5 - RIA Novosti. The unified space missile attack warning system "Dome", created for the Russian Ministry of Defense, is in working condition, Igor Ozar, general director of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia, said on Wednesday. “With the launch of the fourth Tundra spacecraft, the Unified Space System “Dome” has been brought to its minimum standard composition,” Ozar said at the single day of acceptance of military products. He clarified that the devices launched into a highly elliptical orbit control the launch areas of ballistic missiles “on continental territories and in the waters of the world’s oceans.”

 

I offered Ted to connect him to people who may get him in contact with people from RKK Energia for them to marvel at the guy who spreads smut on Russia for some time now. But then again, what this loser General Director of RKK Energia Igor Ozar knows, especially when compared to omniscient Ted Postol who operates with data from 2000s. I omit here physical explanations of known data on Tundra satellites  with each of 6 satellites carrying 5 sensors: three IR, one UV and one optical, with Kupol constellation not only being able to develop tracks of any type of any missile but also serve as a communication and control system of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces. 

 

Per Colonel Macgregor--I kinda get it when your country and your, allegedly great, accomplishments, collapse in a front of your eyes and everything you know about military history and war turns into, well, fairy tale--it is difficult. This is the only explanation I have for Macgregor embarrassing himself whenever him talking about USSR/Russia. I call it Al Bundy's high school football "four touch downs" syndrome. I know, I went through this myself. Defensive reactions vary, but they, most (not all) of them, are always based of self-medicating lies. In general, Macgregor should avoid talking about USSR in WW II of which he has minimal knowledge and understanding and also goes referring to the guy whose "expertise" is his own figment of imagination.

Ah, Yes! Good Ol' And Tried...

 ... self-medication from the times of victorious Wehrmacht and SS which many is US military still hold in high regard. Maybe because they don't know what winning wars is? Just a wild guess but...

Russia Sends Waves of Troops to the Front in a Brutal Style of Fighting. More than 1,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine were killed or wounded on average each day in May, according to NATO and Western military officials.

That's how coping looks like. I want to stress again, that Pentagon in general is a sour grapes territory of losers who sense that this is above their professional competencies. So, what's left? Yes, waves of those Red Army peasants prodded from the behind by NKVD troops who overwhelmed artsy Germans in waves--a favorite shtick of Colonel Macgregor who learned all those fairy tales from... yes, Germans. Obviously, math is not a strong forte of "NATO and Western military officials" because the whole system of officer training in the West is a joke. It does not allow for a development of the main capability of the officer which is having a developed mental instrumentation for space-time awareness of the battle space. This comes from not only massive curriculum in STEM but in appropriate study of tactics, operations and military history. They don't teach real military history in NATO military academies--they teach propaganda based on strategic fairy tales. 

Patrick Armstrong gives a good review of the newest book on REAL history:

The central theme and, no doubt, a complete surprise to most of its readers, will be that the the conventional story has got it exactly backwards: Stalin was not Hitler’s co-conspirator. He understood four things: 1) the previous good Moscow-Berlin relations were gone forever, 2) Hitler was a threat to all around him, 3) Hitler would break any agreement as soon as he could, 4) the only response was an agreement of Germany’s neighbours to block him. “Collective security” they called it: only together could Hitler be stopped; individual agreements just encouraged him to push somewhere else. This volume retails, meeting by meeting, the efforts of Soviet diplomats to get their interlocutors to grasp this and to construct an anti-Hitler resistance arrangement. They were not unsuccessful: important people in France, Britain (even the anti-Bolshevik Winston Churchill who met the Soviet Ambassador often), Romania and Czechoslovakia agreed with Stalin’s appreciation of the situation but they could never quite push their governments over the finish line.   

So, consider ramifications. They are severe for the West.

How They Study War...

 ... in Western academe. Recall this both heartbreaking but also a heartwarming picture of dedicated Ghanian teacher Richard Appiah Akoto trying to introduce kids in his village to computers. 

This story had a happy end--Richard was invited by Microsoft to Singapore meeting and donations of lap and desktops poured in. This lesson has a lesson in it--here, we have a person of a true dedication trying to make the best of it with no means at all. 

Here is the opposite--bunch of imbeciles from London parade themselves as... imbeciles. 

This objective had seemed impossible. Now, though, a string of Ukrainian garrison cities are suddenly in peril as Russian combat units move forward, supported by planes dropping lethal glide bombs. Putin’s generals are using classic Soviet military tactics from the second world war. They are trying to encircle Ukrainian troops on multiple fronts. The capture of Ocheretyne means Moscow has tantalising options. It can push west through Hrodivka to the city of Pokrovsk, a key Ukrainian military base. Or its forces can head north. If Russia manages to capture the city of Chasiv Yar, it can simultaneously advance from the south, chopping off a further large chunk of Ukrainian territory.

The Guardian and its "military experts" evidently, unlike Richard who had no means, have everything at their disposal but UK and its lilliputian military literally have NO people who understand modern warfare and do not know a simple issue of force economy mode by Russian forces in SMO, as opposed to Deep Operations in WW II which saw not only demolition of Wehrmacht and Axis armies, and army groups, but also high casualties for the Red Army. Offensive operations are ALWAYS costly in blood and materiel. Two wars cannot be more different strategically, not to mention operationally, especially because NATO (US) ISR works 24/7 for Nazis in Kiev. The military illiteracy of the combined West is stupefying--lazy uncultured hacks who study world outside the same way Richard tried to introduce kids to computers by drawing them on the chalkboard. But if Richard is a hero and an example of humility and humanity, these creeps with all those advanced degrees in nothing should pay more attention to their resources at hand and try to study real war, not BS they teach at Sandhurst...

I Like Douglas MacGregor, But...

... he really needs to freshen up his history of the Great Patriotic War, because  NKVD never "executed million soldiers" who "refused to fight". This is a complete fantasy straight out of Solzhenitsyn, Hollywood and neocons' fantasies. 

In fact, the Zagrad Otryads' primary function was to stop retreating troops, reorganize them and return to the front, including through reforming (reconstituting) combat units. Moreover, those NKVD troops themselves fought valiantly at the front lines. It is about time we stopped this NKVD executing "millions" of people shtick, because all of that is a fairy tale concocted in the deep recesses of Cold War Western anti-communism propaganda machines and BS sold to them by all kind of "victims of the regime". One simple operational fact--who, in their own mind, would "execute" a million troops, badly needed on the front in a face of overwhelming might of Nazi Germany and its vassals? Stalin was anything but stupid, he was a superb strategist and had nothing in common with caricature drawn on him in the West. Moreover, 90% of what is known to general public about GULAG and NKVD is nothing but pure propaganda.   

Now that we put this away, the newly coined "state sponsor of terrorism" continues to decommunize former Ukraine to a great effect by continuing to "run out of missiles". But, when even this creature has to say this:

The US cannot designate Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism” since it simply does not fit the relevant criteria, the US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack told a briefing on Tuesday, while commenting on a similar initiative by European lawmakers. The EU parliament adopted a resolution calling Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism” on Wednesday. “The designation of a state sponsor of terror in terms of the way US law defines it is not a good match for Russia here,” Van Schaack told journalists. Washington is currently “exploring other potential designations” that would allow it to potentially impose further sanctions on Moscow, the ambassador added.

One has to question the whole new level of European degeneracy. What can I say, Van Schaak, in reality, should abandon her "humanitarian law" activity and go back where she belongs--to being attorney for DUI cases in the Wanker County. But, as I am on record, Europe made a choice long time ago, let her enjoy it.